RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE
BRISBANE SEAMEN REJECT THE , BALLOT. '
(UNITED TOESS association.—cor-iu.nT.) (Received June 5, 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Restrictions on the use of gas, coal, and electric power are. now operating. Fifty thousand workers are idle. BRISBANE, This Day. The seamen, by an overwhelming'majority, rejected the ballot proposal. SYDNEY, 4th June. Pending the. resumption of to-morrow's conference in*' Melbourne tho shipping position is unchanged. Over seven" thousand coalminers alone ; are idle through the shipping hold-up. The Sonoma sailed to-night for San Francisco.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1919, Page 7
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83RESTRICTIONS IN FORCE Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 131, 5 June 1919, Page 7
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